Details

Date

1800

Author

Orth

Contribution

Proposed, in about this year, the contagiousness of puerperal fever.

Reference

Carter

Notes

Date is provisional and entirely arbitrary. Not in Garrison 4th ed. K. C. Carter, in book review (Bull. Hist. Med. 70: 1996) says Johannes Orth was among those who did "seminal" studies on childbed fever (and guided Pasteur and Koch).